I’m really frustrated at Red Hat. I’m almost at the point of saying “Screw it!” and going in a completely different direction. Any direction. Its not just one or two things that are bothering me, its not a specific person or group. What bothers me so much is the consistent breakage. There’s always something rather important that is completely hosed for 3 to 4 months at a time until the next RHEL Update is released.
For RHEL 4 Update 2 the SELinux policy changed in a way that would not allow OpenAFS to work. Could not mount /afs. I filed a bug and got a very quick response. In fact, the problem had already been fixed. Of course it wont be pushed out until Update 3, but I downloaded the most recent RPMS (no source however) and pushed them out through my RHN Satellite to my clients. Overall, one of the better experiences I’ve had getting things fixed of late.
However, the more this kinda stuff happens the more frustrated I get. If its not SELinux policy, its up2date not handling obsoletes, kernels that can’t serve NFS because of 6 month old bugs, nscd agents that wont expire their caches, RHN Satellite stupidness, missing libraries, or any of a number of things that have prevented me from having a good RHEL 4 rollout.
Okay, so this has been a draft for a few days. I must say that today I have discovered many RHEL 3 Realm Linux clients that have dependency errors keeping them from updating. It looks like that up2date somehow crapped out when working on U 6 leaving many machines with 60 some duplicate packages installed. Like gcc-c++-3.2.3-52 and gcc-c++-3.2.3-53.
Maybe I should keep a list of problems I’m having with Red Hat products. I hate to. Red Hat is one company I want to see succeed and do things right. They have been such a leader in that…until the last couple years. What do I do?
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